We continue reflecting on telling God's story and our stories. this week we worship in the context of recognizing our Seniors in high school. When I think about that transition from high school to college, I remember it being a time of opportunity. most of the people I would come to know at college were did not know the high school person I was. I could, in essence, become a new person and most people would not know anything different.
What are some times in your life when you had a time of transition and intentionally changed who you were?
The beauty of living our story is that we can rewrite the story as we go.
The Old Testament passage from Exodus 2: 5-15 references Moses at a pivotal time in his life. Think about his rewrites: born a Hebrew boy; raised in Pharaoh's court; acted on his Hebrew heritage by killing the Egyptian beating the Hebrew slave; stranger working a foreign land; reluctant leader of God's people; and great patriarch of Israelites. Sometimes the transition happened to him; sometimes he chose it; the hand of God was in all of it.
The women mentioned in Luke had known difficult times, but in Christ they were freed from their past stories and invited to rewrite their stories as followers of Christ.
there is freedom and opportunity in realizing that we can rewrite our story. maybe rewrite is not the correct word. Perhaps I should be saying add a new chapter.
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